The documents listed
below are submitted to the Chinese Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA)
as your dossier.

Please do not start
collecting these documents until you receive your GWCA Adoption Manual.

GWCA has sample forms
in the packet to help you fill them out correctly. Also, some documents
will require up to four levels of endorsements. This is explained after
the list of items. (All items required for your home study are separate
from this list.)

1. Six (6) family
life photographs - you and your home

(do not include
pets in your photographs nor people who will not be residing in the
home permanently)

2. Letter to the
CCAA to request the adoption

(do not use a
form letter)

3. Home Study

(if you are single,
an Acceptance of Guardianship Statement attached to the Home Study)

4. Birth Certificate(s)
from State Bureau of Vital Statistics

5. Marriage Certificate
or Statement of Single Status

6. Divorce Decree,
if divorced and not remarried

7. Health Examination
Certificate, one for each person in the household

8. Financial Statement

9. Employer Letter(s)

CPA Statement
if self-employed
Statement from stating spouse is a stay-at-home parent

10. Local Police
or Sheriff Criminal History Check

11. Approval Notice
from INS (Form I-171H)

12. Photocopy of
Signature/Photo page of passport(s)

13. Special Power
of Attorney, if only one parent is traveling to China